Dan Huberty

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Dan Huberty
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Member of the TexasHouseofRepresentatives
from the 127th district
In office
January 11, 2011 –January 10, 2023
OccupationBusinessman

Daniel G. Huberty (June 21, 1968) [1] is an American businessman and politician who was a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 127 in Harris County from 2011 to 2023. [2]

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Huberty ran unopposed for his third term in the state House in the general election on November 4, 2014. [1] He won the Republican primary held on March 1, 2016. [3] [4]

Early life, education, and career

Huberty is a native of Parma, Ohio, a suburb south of Cleveland. In 1991, he received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Cleveland State University in downtown Cleveland. In 1998, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix.

Huberty is the Chief Executive Officer of MoakCasey, [5] an education consulting firm in Austin, Texas.

Previously, Huberty was an executive with a parking company; before that, a natural gas fueling company.

Political life

Huberty, of Humble, Texas, was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 2011. [6] Before being elected to the state House, he had been a member of the Humble Independent School District school board for five years, including serving board president in his last year. [7]

During the 86th legislative session, Huberty served his second term as chairman of the House Committee on Public Education. [8] He also served on the House Committee on County Affairs. [9] He authored twelve bills which were signed by the Governor [9] including House Bill 3 (2019), an education bill. [10]

In 2016, Huberty was challenged in the Republican primary by Mitchell Bosworth. Huberty won, 78% to 22%. Huberty defeated challengers from the Libertarian Party and Green Party in the 2016 general election, taking 82% of the vote. [11]

In 2018, Reginald Grant initially ran against Huberty in the Republican primary; a state judge ruled that Grant was ineligible because he did not meet the residency requirements for the district, although his named remained on the ballot. [12] In the general election, Huberty won a fifth term with 44,595 (80.2%), defeating Libertarian candidate Ryan Woods, who polled 10,981 (19.8%). [13]

DUI arrest

On April 23, 2021, Huberty was arrested for driving under the influence in Montgomery County after crashing his vehicle into another car and failing a sobriety test. [14] At the time, Huberty was driving home from the State Capitol. [7] He bonded out after the arrest, and the following day he issued an apology on Facebook and said he would seek treatment for alcoholism. [15] In a subsequent speech on the House floor, Huberty said he had struggled with alcohol addiction all his adult life and was in a twelve-step program. [7]

Personal life

Huberty and his wife, the former Janet Marie Etterman, have three children. They are members of Saint Martha's Roman Catholic Church parish in Kingwood/Porter, Texas. [16]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dan Huberty's Biography". votesmart.org. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Dan Huberty". Texas Legislative Reference Library. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Dan Huberty - Ballotpedia". ballotpedia.org. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  4. ↑ "Election Returns". Texas Secretary of State. November 6, 2018. Archived from the original on November 10, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Our Team". Moak Casey. Retrieved 2025-11-12.
  6. ↑ "Texas House Member: Rep. Huberty, Dan District 127". Texas House of Representatives.
  7. 1 2 3 Shawn Mulcahy, "My name is Dan and I'm an alcoholic": State Rep. Dan Huberty confronts addiction after DWI arrest, Texas Tribune (May 3, 2021).
  8. ↑ "Huberty Named Chairman of Public Education Committee". House of Representatives. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  9. 1 2 "Texas House Member Rep. Huberty, Dan District 127". House of Representatives.
  10. ↑ "House Bill 3". TEA: Texas Education Agency. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  11. ↑ "Texas House District 127". Texas Tribune. The Texas Tribune Company. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  12. ↑ "Rep. Dan Huberty's primary challenger declared ineligible to run". Texas Tribune. The Texas Tribune Company. 19 January 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  13. ↑ "Race Summary Report: 2018 General Election". Texas Secretary of State.
  14. ↑ Canizales, Anna (April 24, 2021). "State Rep. Dan Huberty arrested for DWI after accident Friday night". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
  15. ↑ "Texas State Rep. Dan Huberty seeking treatment after crash while under influence of alcohol". KXAN. April 24, 2021. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
  16. ↑ "State Rep. Dan Huberty District 127 (R-Houston)". The Texas Tribune . Retrieved March 25, 2014.
Texas House of Representatives
Preceded by
Joe Crabb
 Texas State Representative
for District 127 (Harris County)
2011–		Succeeded by
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